36.1777, Books: More than (Just) Words: Szczyrbak (ed.) (2025)

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Subject: 36.1777, Books: More than (Just) Words: Szczyrbak (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 05-Jun-2025
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: More than (Just) Words: Szczyrbak (ed.) (2025)


Title: More than (Just) Words
Subtitle: Legal and Non-Legal Narratives in the Courtroom and Beyond
Series Title: Foundations in Language and Law
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
           https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111431789/html

Editor(s): Magdalena Szczyrbak

eBook ISBN: 9783111431789
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111430904

Abstract:

This edited collection illuminates the mechanisms involved in
courtroom reality construction and the ways in which trial narratives
are created and legal facts established. It covers a wide range of
jurisdictions and legal procedures spanning five continents. In
addition to explaining how courtroom actors utilise words to craft
their narratives within institutional constraints, it draws attention
to the effect the gestural, visual and material resources have on the
discursive shaping of the judicial process. The book highlights the
intersection of legal and non-legal perspectives in judicial and
related settings: those of judges, prosecutors, attorneys,
complainants, lay witnesses, forensic experts, witness intermediaries
and jurors. Going beyond (just) words, the volume elucidates the
processes of meaning-making and the discourse practices which underlie
asymmetrical interaction in judicial settings. Informed by diverse
theoretical frameworks, the book will appeal to legal linguists and
discourse analysts studying institutional communication, as well as
legal practitioners engaged in trial practice.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Forensic Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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